I'm more used to hearing from xtians who are happy to admit to being sinners. We all are and its our own fault because the first of our kind failed the serpent test and we inherited that failure and the resulting corruption of our nature. But don't despair. It's going to be okay because 2000 years ago God became man so that he could swallow up all that sin and take it with him to the grave.
Anyone who believes that this is so gets the big carrot and avoids the big stick. Well at least so long as God decides to extend his grace to you. Apparently you can't win this grace through good acts either; so really, morality doesn't enter into it. The idea is that so long as you love God above all else and give yourself over to His will then his divine nature will motivate you to do good.
Keep in mind however that God works in strange and wonderful ways whose logic is beyond our ken. You may be called on to lock your young children into your car and roll it into a lake in order to send them on ahead of you to be with God. Perhaps he'll test you by calling on you to seek divine intervention for your child's life threatening illness. You might even be called on to shoot an abortion doctor. Whatever His plan may be, what matters is that you leave off being willful and seek to do His will instead. But remember it isn't what you do which will decide the stick/carrot outcome. Rather it is abandoning ownership of your actions by turning it all over to the lord that will keep you out of hell and send you on to heaven.
Make sense? Yeah, me neither.
Anyone who believes that this is so gets the big carrot and avoids the big stick. Well at least so long as God decides to extend his grace to you. Apparently you can't win this grace through good acts either; so really, morality doesn't enter into it. The idea is that so long as you love God above all else and give yourself over to His will then his divine nature will motivate you to do good.
Keep in mind however that God works in strange and wonderful ways whose logic is beyond our ken. You may be called on to lock your young children into your car and roll it into a lake in order to send them on ahead of you to be with God. Perhaps he'll test you by calling on you to seek divine intervention for your child's life threatening illness. You might even be called on to shoot an abortion doctor. Whatever His plan may be, what matters is that you leave off being willful and seek to do His will instead. But remember it isn't what you do which will decide the stick/carrot outcome. Rather it is abandoning ownership of your actions by turning it all over to the lord that will keep you out of hell and send you on to heaven.
Make sense? Yeah, me neither.
